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Cheboygan Daily Tribune - Cheboygan, MI

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Posted Dec. 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Posted Dec. 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Township board out of control To everyone who missed it, our last township board meeting took the cake! The board has come up with a new set of rules for the citizens to abide by at meetings, which does not include themselves or their "employees", instead they sit up in front of us smug looking and some with grins on their faces while taking our money for a failing sewer project. Our police chief has been made the townships "official timekeeper". I guess no one on the board knows how to tell time! Another thing, check out the trustees, or should I say the bobble heads, because all they do is sit there and nod their heads up and down at whatever is said by their members, right or wrong. Mr. Ridley has made the statement at a recent meeting that we should not get personal and not to ever mention his family. Well Mike, you get personal with me and my family at each and every meeting by trying to put me out of the business that my wife and I have worked so hard for over the past 27 years. You can't make it more personal than that Mike! Another news flash about our last township meeting of Dec. 3, when a township employee assaulted one of our disabled senior citizens for the second time. Enough is enough! That man needs to be fired. This entire township board is out of control. They do not care about our welfare as they continue to ignore our questions. They are not for the people and have proven that many times. IF they truly cared for the people and the life of the community they would STOP this sewer project immediately. I say it is time to "GET RID OF RIDLEY and the rest of the board as soon as possible, even if it means a recall! Louie Paolino Indian River Real life consequences What has our government become when President Barrack Obama’s promises turn out to be lies, and Obamacare was passed using legislative rules implemented by Democrats without a single Republican vote? Totalitarian. Ideologues have hijacked our health care system and created a new welfare program. If limited resources won’t require rationing, why don’t current welfare recipients drive new cadillacs? Who wants reliance on a government subsidy or a leviathan which turns all of their programs into political footballs when the funding inevitably becomes tight? Get ready to pay young healthy adults — they’re counting on you! Remember, Obama lied that you can keep your current plan, you can keep your doctor, and premiums will decrease buy an average of $2,500 annually for most plans. Dr. Scott Gottlieb wrote in Forbes “No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under Obamacare”. It might just be a “quirky” extra. Democrats will blame insurance and pharmaceutical companies and Republicans, they always do. Democrats will squirm at re-election time but the bottom line is they are all part and parcel for these lies since they voted to implement all the regulations governing taxes, penalties, insurance, and pharmaceuticals with this law. In an ideological full control frenzy, Democrats in lock step party line passed Obamacare without understanding every single legislative line and implication of the law which affects all of us. Obviously it was Party and ideology first, the American working family last. Leonard Page ridicules “death panel talk”, but in reality, when an appeal has to be made for a specialty drug or to visit a special hospital or doctor who is not in the Democrats’ Utopian tiered network, prepare to get your checkbook out or suffer the consequences since the appeal takes time. When Page continues his salesmanship, remember, the Democrat Party lied. Brian Fullford Indian River